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Translations, Contributions, Introductions, Works about and Extraneous Works by Paul Auster.

"I remember a telephone conversation I had with him back in 1985-86, and when it came around to the subject of writing for the New York Review of Books, etc. he nicely summed up the business of pursuing one's art (and vice versa) like this: "I either take the money and write whatever - within reason - they want; or I write whatever I want and sell it for as much as I can". This has become something like a motto for me."

Kevin Brown

Written by

Paul Auster

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story

by Paul Auster (writer)

"This story, originally published in The New York Times on Christmas Day 1990, is the literary basis for the recently released films, Smoke and Blue in the Face, by Paul Auster and Wayne Wang. "

William Drenttel

"I didn't exactly say that I was her grandson. Not in so many words, at least, but that was the implication. I wasn't trying to trick her, though. It was like a game we both decided to play."

Auggie

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November 1982

Edited by

Paul Auster

The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

by Paul Auster (Editor)

"This excellent anthology undertakes a double task: to provide a comprehensive view of French poetry in the twentieth century and to show, in the range of translators it offers, the influences of that poetry on American and British poets. . . . . Paul Auster has done an excellent job of matching poets and translators, and has provided us with some wonderful things: Samuel Beckett's translations of Eluard, Nancy Cunard's Aragon, John Ashbery's Jacob, William Carlos Williams's Char. And he gives us selections from the often ignored Segalen, Artaud and Jabes, fundamental for any long view of the French twentieth century. . . . Still, the absence of Cocteau and Genet removes one major sensibility from this resume of modern French poetry. And it is surprising . . . that out of the {forty-eight} poets represented here, only one is a woman."

Random House

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October 1975

Translated by

Paul Auster

by Saul Friedlander, Mahmoud Hussein, Paul Auster (Translator), Jean Lacoutre (Translator)

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(Nb Center of the World)

More to come:

Squeeze Play

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert

The Review of Contemporary Fiction

The World That Is the Book: Paul Auster fiction

White Spaces

Wall Writings

Drawn into the Circle of Its Repetitions.

Moonlight in the Brooklyn Museum

The Book of the Dead: An Interview with Edmond Jabes

A Few Words in Praise of George Oppen

The Poetry of William Bronk

A Tomb for Anatole

Viscious Circles

China from the Nineteen Eleven Revolution to Liberation

China: The People's Republic, 1949-1976

Mao Tse-Tung: A Guide to His Thought

On the High Wire

Paul Auster's New York